On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:

 |      You didn't get it. What if I want to do that for a latest distro,
 |say Mandrake8.0? Compiling all of them from the srpm's isn't a good choice
 |in that case, given the time and efforts needed for it.
 |
 |      Removing a few files should be simpler than that.

how about a shell script ???

rpm -ivh package.rpm
rm /i/dont/want/this/file1
rm /i/dont/want/this/file2
rm /i/dont/want/this/file3

there you now save all the diskspace.

and you can use this script to install instead of the rpm command.

Kingsly

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